Dr. Priya Shankar, MD, MPH is a pediatrician and adolescent medicine specialist dedicated to global health equity, youth leadership, and adolescent health advocacy. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine at Children’s National Hospital/GWU and the Director of Global Health, Policy, and Youth Engagement. She is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University. She earned her medical degree from Boston University, her Master of Public Health from Harvard, completed her residency in the PLUS program at UCSF, and recently concluded an Adolescent Medicine fellowship at Johns Hopkins Children's Center. She was a former Fulbright-Nehru Scholar and Fogarty NIH fellow. Dr. Shankar is the co-founder of Adolescent Health Champions, an internationally recognized non-profit that empowers adolescents as peer educators to lead vital health and mental well-being initiatives within their own schools and communities.